Envelop and the like



A. E. H. PAYNE.

ENVELOP AND THE LIKE. MPLlCATlON F-ILED AUG.26, 1918- 1,335,183. .Patentedllar. 30,1920.

WITNESS-ES. INVENTOR.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALBERT Enwnnn nonmcx PAYNE, orximiimn, maxim. nnvnnor AND THE LIKE.

1,335,183. ec c of Letters Patent Patented Mar. 30, 1920 Application filed August 26, 1918. Serial No. 251,506.

To all whom it may concern: a perimeter thereof and therein is part of a Be it known that I, ALBERT EDWARD Honlength of string or like flexible substance 4 LICK "PAYNE, contractor, a subject of His attached to aslip of cardboard or other Majesty the King of Great Britain and suitable material 6 by means of a strip of Ireland, residing at Mons Leinster Wal adhesive paper 7 or other suitable means. 55 Kildare, Ireland, have invented certain new Where appearance is of less importance than. and useful Improvements in or Relating to utility I may be content to tie string 4 to Envelops and the like; and I do hereby dethe edge of slip 6. I clare-the following to be a full, clear, and ex- Referring to Fig. 2: 1 shows the face of 10 act description, such as will enable others and 2, 2 that part of the perimeter referred 60 skilled in the art to which it appertains to to in Fig. 1 indicating position of string 4 make and use the same. and by rectangle of dotted lines the slip 6 This invention relates to a novel and conwhich notwithstanding limits there shown venient appliance retainable in a fold at the may be of any dimensions within the capacperimeter of an envelop orits like. While ity of the envelop or its like. I prefer that 65 susceptible of modification (as will hereinafsame to be one-quarter of an inch smaller ter appear) my invention in every case comthan the pocket intended for it. Any disprises a length of string or like flexible subadvantage that the said slip may have by stance retained for use in a fold at the perreason of its presence in the envelop may be imeter of an envelop or its like whereby to more than compensated b using its body 70 tear said fold a hold is given. for some pleasing or useful purpose such The object of my invention herein set as picture calendar advertisement or even to forth is to provide the cutting string at the contain the message so sent.

erimeter of a slip of cardboard or other Referring to Fig. 3: Here slip 6 is shown suitable material to which it is attached with the string 4: in a fold at its perimeter 75 throughout the length of the edge so that so held by adhesive. when this slip is within the envelop with the In the case of small envelops I prefer end or ends of its string projecting through paper slip 6 and the string 4 may in such the corresponding corner or corners of the case be in a fold formed on per meter of envelop the fold line or crease between the same similar to that shown in Fig. 3 in- 80 these limits may be slit by the operator tearstead of strip 7 ing back the end of the strin in the usual As another modification of the foregoing manner thereby at the one an same opera- I may fasten string 4 on a strip of adhetion tearing the string from the slip and sive paper or other suitable material and tear the envelop fold aforesaid. aflix the same at perimeter of slip 6. 85

In order that my invention may be clearly Consideration for substance and make of understood I will now describe the same the envelop or its like proposed to be used with reference to the annexed drawing must decide the best modification therefor. forming part of this specification wherein-- Therefore I do not confine or limit myself Figure 1 is a sectional view of a fold at to either or any one particular means .for 90. the perimeter of an envelop or its like conretaining said length of string or like flexitaining a slip of cardboard or other suitable ble substance at the perimeter of the aforematerial in accordance with my invention said slip 6 or to the dimensions of or nature and Fig. 2 is a face view of the same. Fig. of the said string or like flexible substance.

3 is a detail referring thereto. to be used thereon.

Similar numerals refer to similar parts What I claim and desire to secure by Letthroughout the several views. ters Patent of the United States is Referring to Fig. 1: 1, 2, 3, show the fold In a device of the character described a formed by the material (of which the encutting string at the edge of a slip of paper 50 velop or its like is made) being folded at 2 to which it is attached throughout the length of the edge so that when this slip of paper string from the slip and teari is within the envelop with its string bearing fold aforesaid substantially as set to edge in the fold thereof and the end of the In testimony whereof I aflix my si string projecting through the corresponding in the presence of two witnesses.

gnature 5 corner of the envelop the said fold may be ALBERT EDWARD HORLIGK PAYNE.

slit by the 0 erator pulling back the end of Witnesses: the string in the usual manner thereby at LENA PAYNE, I

the one and same operation tearing the O. HUMPHRIEs. 

